Awatchfire

Whatcom County, Washington

Drayton Harbor Fire

Burning 2.2 miles north of Birch Bay and 2.3 miles south of Blaine, since Sunday 20 September.

Map of Washington. The Drayton Harbor Fire burns 19 miles from Bellingham and 94 miles from Seattle, and 132 miles from the state capital, Olympia.
The fire sits 19 miles from Bellingham and 94 miles from Seattle.

6

acres burned so far

24

days burning so far

—

no share of the perimeter reported held yet

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Drayton Harbor Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 6 acres in Whatcom County, Washington. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

Undetermined

The cause has not yet been determined.

24 days

on record — first written down on Sunday 20 September at 4:13pm local time, starting at 2 acres.

48.955, -122.739lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Two other fires are burning inside the same view. LOC drayton harbor Fire started 0 minutes after this one, 0.5 miles south-west, and has reached 2 acres. California Creek Fire started on Wednesday 19 August, 6.2 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

No smoke has been recorded lying over this ground.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Sunday 20 September

    First reported at 2 acres

    2 ac
  2. Sunday 20 September

    2 acres on record

    2 ac
  3. Monday 21 September

    Grew to 5 acres

    5 ac
  4. Monday 21 September

    Grew to 6 acres

    6 ac